Letter Mitch sent to other GOP senators tonight:

[DirkLerxst]

Link to tweet

[chillfactor]

1. he is such an asshat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

she just died today and he is already dancing on her grave.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. It's disgusting... I hate that mfer ALMOST as much as PEErodent tRump!!

[W_HAMILTON]

3. The fact that he even had to send that out makes me think that there may be some dissension...

...within their ranks.

Of course, I'll believe it when I see it, given that Republicans as a whole are pretty much power hungry with no sense of morals whatsoever, but this isn't a letter you send out if you are 100% positive that you will be able to ram through a nomination easily.

[Eugene]

4. Mitch is spinning like a top.

So now, what he said in 2016 really wasn't what he said. Despicable but not surprising.

[world wide wally]

5. How fucking long do Republicsn cans live anyway?

Seems like forever.

[herding cats]

6. Do not be surprised my friends.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime and there is zero chance these assholes will pass it up. Zero chance.

It's a done deal.

[hibbing]

8. 100%

[vercetti2021]

12. Won't matter

If the Democrats win the Senate and presidency. We expand the court to 11 or 13 or even 15.

[herding cats]

14. If

We have to win first, which is far from guaranteed in the senate and this court will have much time to do massive harm before that will be implemented. Even if we win, which isn't a guaranteed situation by any means. There will be damaged done before change could even in a best case scenario be made. None of this is easy, were literally in Hail Mary land now.

I'm an optimist, even I see this as a doomsday scenario.

We are dealing with a deeply dark possible reality right now.

[vercetti2021]

15. Okay so what massive harm?

I'm trying to figure out what else they can do?

[Blue Owl]

7. Mitch can go reap himself

n/t

[Maraya1969]

9. Welp, looks like fire alarms and stink bombs. They think we're going to play their game?

Come play with us you ass. There are a lot more creative people than me here.

[Grasswire2]

10. what can we do to deprive him of his seat?

How's his campaign in Kentucky?

[herding cats]

11. The single best thing we can do is focus on close/vulnerable seats and steal his majority.

He's sadly not at much risk at this point.

He's in a Trump loving, brain dead state and they're both likely to hold an easy victory there. We need to focus elsewhere.

[Ferryboat]

13. Just pointing out

There seems to be something missing. I'm not seeing the beginning or the transition to the next page.

If your posting, please post the ENTIRE statement.

[JHB]

16. There he goes again, not only inventing the "Biden rule" but expanding it...

...adding all sorts of provisions so he can weasel out of what he said in 2016.

IIRC, what Joe suggested (no "rule" because it was never acted upon) was a pause button: suspend SC nominee hearings during the hot zone of campaign season (~July-November). That's all.

[Iliyah]

17. It will work with the cult . . .

and energize the others who know this is totally wrong. It's wrong, but alas republicans can only keep power by cheating and stealing and suppression and gerrymandering and lying. These so called "Christians" are evil.

[SergeStorms]

18. What a steaming pile of bullshit.

His lies are starting to take on Trumpian proportions. I guess when your head has been stuck up someone's ass for so long you start taking on the characteristics of that person. Is there a single republican who has an iota of integrity remaining? Not that I've seen in the past eight years.

[smirkymonkey]

19. I can't even say what I am thinking right now.

That evil POS is such a ghoul. He does not deserve to live.

[DFW]

20. McTurtle is not an idiot. There are two possible reasons for sending this out

One: he wants to address his fellow Republicans
Two: he wants to put us off our guard

Under scenario one, he is trying to get the couple of wavering (on the surface, anyway) Republicans to tow the line when he tries to choose yet another unqualified extremist Republican for the Supreme Court and jam the nomination through before Democrats can do anything about it.

Under scenario two, he has ALREADY done all of the above mentioned in scenario one, but wants us to think he's nervous, and to lull us into a false sense of security, into not being on full red (so to speak) alert and ready to retaliate at the first hint of his taking action. "Concern" from people like Murkowski or any other Republican Senators may be genuine, or it may be to reassure Democrats that they need not go to DefCon One just yet.

Obviously, YES WE DO need to go to DefCon One, because anyone who thinks McTurtle is not ready to charge with all guns blazing has not studied him closely. My guess is that that McTurtle fully intends to try to ram another Kavanaugh into Ginsburg's seat before Halloween. I, for one, would expect nothing less from him, and I am one who wouldn't mind seeing him with an involuntary one-way coach class seat on the next Mars probe, or strapped to the outside surface of Kim Jong Un's next nuclear testing device.